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HlOl4 WATER AT LONI)ON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning 55 minutes after 3 1 Evening l3 minutes after 4 THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET, WILL OPEN for the SEASON on EASTER-MONDAY, April 16. Mr. WEBSTER, Lessee. Splendidly Decorated. Yirst appearance of the celebrated Mademoiselle Celeste (who is engaged for a limited number of nights), Miss Cooper, Mr. E. Glover, and Miss Elphinstone. An OPENING ADDRESS (written by C. Dance, Esq.) will be spoken by Mrs. Glover. Whrea will be presented (85th time) Sheridan Knowles's suc cessful Comedy of THE LOVE CHASE! The Band will per form flerold's Overture to " Zampa." Sir William Fondlove (an old Baronet), Mr. Strickland; Master Waller (in love with IItlia), Mr. Edmund Glover, from the Norwich Circuit, his first appearance ; Wildrake (a Sportsman), Mr. Webster ; Trueworth, 34r. Hemming ; Neville, Mr. Worrell ; Humphreys, Mr. Hutch ings ; Chargewell (a Landlord), Mr. Gough ; George (a Waiter), Mr. Bishop ; Lash, Mr. T. F. Mathews; Lawyer, Mr. Green ; Servant, Mr. Arthur ; Widow Green, Mrs. Glover ; Constance (Daughter to Sir William Fondlove), Miss Elphinstone, from the Ther.tres Reyal Edinburgh and Dublin, her first appearance ; Lydia (Lady's Maid to Widow Green), Miss Cooper, from the 'Theatres York and Lincoln, her first appearance in London ; Alice, !Madame Sala (from the Saint James's Theatre) ; and Amelia, Miss Gallot. Previous to the Comedy. " God save the Queen" will be sung by Mrs. Waylett, Mrs. Fitzwilliam, Mr. D. F. King, and the whole of the Company. The Band will perform Auber's Overture to " L'Ambassadrice." After which, will be produced, Mr. Bernard's Domestic Drama (in Two Acts) called ST. MARY'S EVE, A STORY OF :THE SOLWAY; with new Scenery, Dresses, and Decorations. The Music by Mr. Eliason ; the Scenery by Mr. G. Morris and Assistants. Major Wentworth (a proscribed Jacobite), Mr. G. Glover; Robert Vaughan (a Farmer), Mr. Hemming ; Lieut. Hanby of the Coast Guard), Mr. Hutchings; Tom Bags (the Carlisle Postman), Mr. Buckstone ; Chalk (an Innkeeper), Mr. Strick- land ; Barty Sharpe (a discharged Trooper), Mr. Gallot; Grayling (a Fisherman), Mr. Gough ; Ralph, Mr. Clarke ; William, Mr. ; Dame Mayflower, Madame Sala; Mary, Miss Beresford; Lame Ferns, Mrs. Gallot ; and Madeline (the Jacobite's Sister), 'Mademoiselle Celeste, who will dance " La Normande." Musical Director, Mr. Reed; Leader of the Band, Mr. T. G. Reed. First price —Boxes, ss. ; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. ; Upper Gallery, Is.—Second price at Nine o'Clock—Boxes 3s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. Doors to be open at Half -past Six, and the Performance to commence at Seven o'Clock. The liox-office will open on Saturday, at Ten o'Clock, where Tickets and Places can be had of Mr. Archer. Private Boxes may be had lightly, and Free Admissions for the Season, on application at the Box-office ; and also at the Public Libraries of Messrs. Sams, Seguin, Mitchell, Andrews, and Ebers; and at Fentum's, Strand. On Tuesday, " The Romantic Widow ;" the Marquis St. Croix, Mr.. Ranger ; with " The Man About Town," Dicky Skirts, Mr. Wrench (his first appearance at this Theatre) ; and other Enter 'tainments. On Wednesday, a popular Comedy, with other Entertainments. The Patrons of this popular place of amusement are respectfully informed that, during the recess, the Interior has been Decorated and Painted in a costly and elegant style —every portion of orna ment and covering being entirely new, after the m os t approved fashions of the ti me o f uis Quatorze. The Private Boxes (four of which are new) are tastefully draperied with silk, and so altered and arranged, as to allow of every visitor to them seeing and hear ing with advantage. The cushions and chairs of the Boxes have 'been covered with damask, and the hand-rests with the richest silk tabaret. Splendid new Chandeliers have been introduced in the audience part and in the lobbies. The Box Saloon is elaborately fitted up, and a new Pit Saloon has been built for the accommoda igm and comfort of the numerous and respectable frequenters of the Pit of this Theatre. A new Curtain and a new Act Drop and Proscenium have been painted in a highly finished manner, to ac cord with the Architecture and Decorations of the House. The whole designed and .executed by Mr. Danson. The Lesse e deems it necessary to inform the Public, that the whole of the Chandeliers are lighted with Wax, which is considered more adapted to the comfort and health, as well as conducive to the better appearance of the audience, than Gas. Ladies and Gentlemen at present engaged :—Mrs. Glover, Miss Elphinstone, Miss Taylor, Mrs. Fitzwilliam, Mrs. Waylett, Miss Cooper, Madame Sala, Mrs. Humby, Miss Beresford, Miss Gallot, Mrs. Gallot, Miss Holmes, Mademoiselle Clara, and the celebrated Mademoiselle Celeste; Mr. Ranger, Mr. Wrench, Mr. Buckstone, 31r. Webster, Mr. Strickland, Mr. E. Glover, Mr. Hemming, Mr. Perkins, Mr. D. F. King, Mr. Gallot, Mr. Worrell, Mr. Clarke, Mr. Gough, Mr. Hutchings, Mr. T. F. Mathews, Mr. Bishop, Mr. Green, Mr. Kerridge, and Mr. Authur. Mr. Poe-cr, and other eminent Artists, will take their farewell nights here, previous to their departure for America. NEW WORKS PUBLISHED BY J. SAUNDERS, Jun., 49, Paternoster-row. Part V. of SAUNDERS' POLITICAL REFORMERS, containing Portraits and Memoirs of Mr. SERGEANT TALFOUPD, M.P. Right Honourable EARL SPENCER. T. FOWELL BUXTON, Esq., M.P. Parts Ito V, at 3s. and 7s. (id. each, may be obtained of all Book- sellers. 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Offices, IQ, _ Piceadigv, and `) . 2., Catherine -st ree t, Strand. rrillE EDINBURGH REVIEW, No. CXXXV. Was published This Day. CONTENTS. 1. GEORGE th e FOURTH and QUEEN CAROLINE —ABUSES of the PRESS. f... WHEWELL'S MEM -‘NICAL EUCLID—PRINCIPLES of MA THEMATICAL REASONING. rt. JARDINE on the USE of TORTURE in ENGLAND. 4 SLADE, SPENCER, and OTHERS, on RUSSIA, TURKEY, and Cl RCASSI A. 5. LIFE of WILLIAM WILBERFORCE, BY HIS SONS. 6. MISS MARTINEAU'S TRAVELS in AMERICA. 7 LORD BROUGHAM'S SPEECHES on SLAVERY. 8. CLAIMS of tie WHIGS and TORIES. 9 TRADES' UNIONS a.ed STRIKES. London: Longman and Co., Edinburgh: A. and C. Black. MR. WATERTON'S NEW WORK. This day was published, in fool scap S en ., pr i ce B s. c l ot h l ettered, ESSAYS ON NATURAL H ISTORY. By CHARLES WATERTON, Esq., of Walton Hall. Author of " Wandering s in South Ameri ca ." With a View of W a lt on H a ll , and an Autobiography of the Author. London : Longman, Orme, and Co. THIRD REPRINT.—POST FREE. T HE COURT JOURNAL, GAZETTE of the FASHIONABLE WORLD, with an extra Ihlf- Sheet, is now ready, containing Her Majesty's Dra ving-room ; Ladies' dresses, &p.—The Royal Inspiration—The Debutantes— Description of the• State Apartments—lrene, or the Cantatrice— The New Prima Donna—Almack's, &c. W. THOMAS, PUBLISHER, 19, Catherine-street, Strand. Sold by all Booksellers and Newsmen. The publication of TUN SUN NRWSPAPER commenced this day at 30 minutes past Three o' Clock. WITH WHICH " THE TRUE SUN" IS NOW INCORPORATED. LONDON : THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 12, 1838. The House of Commons adjourned last night to the 25th, and the House of Lords to the 27th inst. Lord J. RUSSELL, in moving the adjournment in the Commons, stated the order in which it was proposed to take the busi ness of the House after the recess. On the abovementioned day the Noble Lord intends to bring in two Bills, which we regard as of the highest importance to the interest of the country in a moral point of view—we mean a Bill for the better regulation of prisons, and one for esta blishing a prison for juvenile offenders. The lat ter measure can scarcely be too highly appre ciated, when it is considered that for want of such an institution as it proposes to supply, our prisons are now in reality seminaries of vice—schools of depravity, in which the youth of both sexes are instructed in all the mysteries of the craft by adepts in crime, and from which they are in due time let loose upon the public, to practise what they have learnt. On the 3d of May Lord JOHN RUSSELL iS to move for a Committee on Church Leases. We are sorry that this motion has been delayed so long. We can see no reason why the Committee should not have been appointed at an earlier period. It can, we fear, make but little progress, in an investigation of so complicated a nature, be fore the close of the Session. The Order of the Day for taking into consideration the Irish Tithe question on the 30th April was, on the motion of the Noble Lord, discharged, and transferred to the 14th May, to allow the third reading of the Irish Poor-law Bill to be brought on on the first of those days. On the Report of the Committee of Supply being brough up, Mr. HumE put a question to the CHANCELLOR of the c t . "" rzE ' - 47 R-L trZta ZJae T1.12.1* EXCHEQUER, which drew from that gentleman some obser vations on the financial resources of the country. The Hon. Member for Kilkenny asked how the Right Hon. Gentle. man meant to provide the 33,0001. required for the payment of pensions, seeing that there was a deficiency in the revenue, the income being 665,000/. less than the actual expenditure. In answering the question, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER remarked, that the deficiency alluded to was not a fair criterion by which to judge of the actual state of the revenue, as it related only to a quarter that was now past, and arose, besides, from a comparison with a corresponding quarter of a former year, which had been swelled by various causes beyond its na tural amount. As an instance of this he mentioned the an ticipation of the tea duties, which alone added nearly a million and a half to the yearly account. The fair way to estimate the two periods was to make a proportionate deduction from the amount of the former. In this we think there can be no difference of opinion. We concur in the observations made by Mr. SPRING RICE on the unpre cedented difficulties which the manufacturing and commercial interests of the country have lately encountered, and, therefore, as we have said before, we feel no surprise at the deficient state of a revenue, which must be drawn princi pally from commercial sources. So far, however, from af fording any ground for despondency, the late crisis, even with all its severe pressure upon individuals, and its effects upon the revenue must, by every reflecting person, be viewed as one of the strongest possible proofs of the fundamental stability of the national resources. It was well observed, too, by the Right Honourable Gentle man, that the exertions made by the Americans, to fulfil their engagements with our merchants, redound greatly to their honour, and cannot fail to produce a most important and beneficial influence on the future mercantile intercourse between the two countries. The Times is sadly at a loss for a subject of censure 1 and so it attacks the Ministers for having fixed the Coro ' nation in the month of June. If all its assertions concern ing the Coronations of those Princes of the House of Brunswick, who did not live in uur time, be as correct as what it asserts of " WILLIAM the just and true," whose Coronation we remember, certainly a more complete web of misrepresentations was never woven even by tae Times. Having no inclination to open the little Chronology lying be fore us, to disprove or verify the assertions that GEORGE 11., GEORGE 111., and GEORGE IV., were crowned when Parliament was not assembled, we are content to state that as to the Coronation of WIA,LIAM IV. the Times is wrong. The Parliament was sitting, and the House of Commons actually met on the very day that WIL LIAM IV. was crowned, the Bth of September, 1831. We copy the following from the votes of the House of Commons of that day : " Tne House met at eight o'clock, A.m.—Coronation Corn. mittee.—Report, let September, read :—" And the names of the counties were drawn from a glass, that the members of each county might sit together, to the end that they might go in the better order, according to the directions of the House, to the solemnity of their MAJESTY'S Coronation, and the Mem bers went forth accordingly.—Adjourned at nine o'clock." Thus, the " most important rule of all" " that, of not interfering with the time and action of the two Houses of Parliament," was violated in the case of " WILLIAM the just and true," ,and, was violated, in two cases out of five, in the coronations of the Princes of the House of Brunswick. So much for the extreme accuracy and the " important rule" of the Times. To say one word of the time chosen for the Coronation. It is plain that in the present balanced state of parties, no important measure can he carried through the two Houses ; to keep them assembled, therefore, for any long period, would only augment the mass of party debates, without improving our legislation. The country seems at present almost to cry " halt" in law-making, and the Ministers pro bably, therefore, think it is wise to follow the public senti ment. We, at least, will not blame them for dismissing the Houses sooner than usual, and completing the cere mony of the Coronation at an early period of the year, if a Coronation there must be. Had Ministers not fixed the ceremony early, there being no rule for fixing it, that would have been censured. In June, the Nobility and Gentry will all be in town, and will not have to return ex pressly for the ceremony. Their ease, therefore, and their economy will be consulted by the ceremony taking place immediately after, or just before the Parliament is pro rogued. The days are then long, and probably will be fine, and the spew will not be wholly obscured by October rains or November fogs. A Coronation ought to be held, if possible, during the fine season. Moreover, it is said, inilve r . l l°F.'„t ibcfs. M A c diTcs n UßVe - an i to confine the advantages of regal splendour exclusively to London and Brighton. Whatever they may he, she means to di fuse them over all her dominions, and let all the people share the pomp and smiles of Royalty. It seems suitable that she should be crowned before visiting Ireland and Scotland ; it seems suitable, too, that she should not be hurried back to her capital to go through that ceremony ; and thus her MAJESTY'S intended journey, the propriety of selecting the fine season for a grand ceremony, and the uselessness of keeping assembled the wrangling representatives of wrang ling and pretty nearly equally factions, all conspire to ap prove of selecting the early month of June for the Corona tion. It must be a consolation for the Ministers, if they read the Times, to reflect that railing is the business of that Journal, and whatever course they may adopt, it will rail ;vith equal eloquence. The ericlence-fabricating-Standard being plainly resolved, since its lying has been detected and exposed, to make up for the present deficiency, by abuse, had last night the fol- lowing passage : " The Globe of last night charges us with having instituted a comparison between the Romish priests of Ireland and the British clergy. Such an offence against decency and truth is the very last that we are capable of committing. We would not compare any class of British men, not even the inmates of our prisons and penitentiaries, with the homebred priests of Ireland, whom we believe to be, in their private lives and con versation, as well as in their public character, the most de praved body of men at this day existing in Europe. Could we then think of placing this odious body in comparison with the British clergy—their extreme opposites in the moral scale ?" The Standard implies that it is an insult to the inha bitants of our prisons to compare them with the chosen and honoured priests of seven millions of our fellow-subjects. The Times, of yesterday, more just than the Standard , exonerated Mr. BURKE from th e c h arge o f h av i ng com mitted the offence for which he is to be punished for his personal gratification, and admitted that it was done for the ascendancy of a party--the same motive as makes the Clergy of the Church of England guilty every day of numerous oppressions, and the Members of the House of Commons guilty of gross injustice, while they still retain the character of honest and upright men. We will not follow the bad example of the Standard, in vehemently condemn ing the whole Clergy of the Church of England, as an im moral body, though we have a strong conviction of the immorality of the general practice of pluralists taking income for duties which they do not perform,--of the Clergy persisting in levying rates and taxes on those who disown their Ministry —of their continually prostituting the name of religion to their worldly advantage; and though we vividly remember that remarkable exposure in the case of Mr. DAVENPORT, when a body of clergy got round a weak-beaded man, and like a parcel of vampires, sucked the blood of his inheritance out of him ; but we will assert that the assiduous manner in which the Catholic Priests of Ireland perform their duties to their flocks, ,consolieg them in affliction, visiting them in sickness, helping them in trouble, and sparing neither time nor pains promote their welfare, according to the approved rules of the Priesthood, is an example which the Absentee and Tithe-levying Clergy of the Church of Ireland would do well to follow. We cannot forget, whatever the Standard may, that the whole crime of Father BURKE and the CREANS grew out of a legal crime—committed on behalf of the Clergy that of taking away by law the substance of the Catholic peasantry, to preserve the ascendancy of an order of priests who are the rivals of Father BURKE and his colleagues. In committing crimes to preserve the ascendancy of an order of Clergy, the Catholic priests of Ireland will bear a favourable compari son with the Protestant clergy —the only difference being that the criminality of the one set:is practised according to the law made by themselves and their friends, and the crimi nality of the other is against law. But though there is little to choose between the priests of either Church, and the advantages are all on the side of the Catholic priest hood in Ireland, we should be ashamed to follow the ex ample of the Standard, and speak of an order of men who are generally beloved and respected as greater criminals that the inmates of our prisons and penitentiaries. More outrageous abuse of a large and honoured class of men we never read ; and it must be satisfactory to the Catholic priests, and a warning to the Tory Clergy not to believe this virulent abuse, that it appears in the Journal which falsified Mr. O'CONNELL'S evidence, to gratify its malignity, and is now deservedly mistrusted by all sincere and honest Protestants. We invite the attention of our readers to the Resolu tions of the Church-rate Abolition Society, passed at a meeting held on Tuesday last. These Resolutions are, in our opinion, exactly what the occasion calls for, temperate, but firm. The Society, as genuine friends of liberty, do not wish to embarrass Lord MELBouasE's Government by recommending any " pressure from without" upon it at the present moment, but it is easy to see that the Dis senters will not allow the question to be shelved or even longer delayed, without visiting the Govern ment with their hostility. Of this, however, there is now no fear, Lord JOHN RUSSELL, as we have stated elsewhere, having fixed the 3d of May for the appointment of a Committee to inquire into Church Leases. In the mean time, let the advice of the Abolition Society be fol lowed ; let Church-rate agitation be unremittingly kept up throughout the country. We have received some important documents, illustrative of the working of the Apprenticeship System in Jamaica, which we shall take an early opportuuity of laying befor e the public. Letters from Lisbon, of the 3d inst., have been received this morning. Her Most Faithful Majesty the QUEEN, by two Decrees, dated the 28th ult., commands the dismissal of all functionaries who participated in the insurrectionary movements of the 4th and 13th of that month ; and orders the disbanding of the artillery of the National Guard for having on these occasions taken part with the "insurgents." Passos MANUEL brought the subject of these Decrees before. the Cortes, and complained that the Government, in not keep ing good faith with the leaders of the disaffected, was ex posing itself to dangers greater than any it had yet escaped. When the banner of revolt was first unfurled it was com petent to the Government to put it down by force, and to punish the revolters with exemplary rigour; but hating en tered into a parley with them—having so far forgotten its dignity as to enter into an express, written convention— nothing ought to induce the Cabinet to depart one jot from the religious observance of every article of such convention. The Ministers defended their conduct in much the same way as a special pleader might be supposed to do if placed in a similarly discreditable position. They endeavoured by a vary silly sophism to show that the negation of official rank, or the dismissal from any post bestowed by the Crown during pleasure, could not strictly be construed as a punishment. In reply, it was pointed out to them that the Royal decrees stated the movements of the 4th and 13th of March to be the causes which induced her MAJESTY to dismiss MANTAS and his associates, and therefore that the Royal act was not only an implied, but a direct punishment to the full extent of the Royal authority. To this reasoning the Ministers only objected by their silence. It would have been still better had they acknowledged their error, and consented to the revocation of the damnatory edicts—for while they remain in existence it is impossible for the Liberal party to place implicit confidence in the truth of an,- convention signed, or oath taken, by her MAJESTY or her advisers. Those who can violate a convention would certainly not hesitate, if they had power and opportunity, to abrogate a Constitution. Great preparations were making for the ceremony of swearing the observance of the new Constitution, of which the KING and QUEEN were to set the example on the 4th inst. The Cortes had notified to her MAJESTY that they would dissolve themselves at the conclusion of the ce remony. It was reported that Lord HOWARD DE WALDEN was about to return to England for a short time. The Hon. Mr. JERNINGTIAM, who was to act as Charge d'Affaires dur ing his Lordship's absence, arrived in LL3bon on the 30th on board the Tagus steamer. The whole of the Paris Journals of Tuesday have been received. They bring the report of a long and animated debate in the Chamber of Deputies on Monday and Tues day, on the question of a supplentary war budget of 4,404,843 francs demanded by General BERNARD, for placing the troops in the interior on such a footing as that the Government might at any moment order 30,000 men to any given point on the frontier. The Committee 1. , plujtuu _ r it, but the Ministers, contrary to the usual course on such occa sons, persevered in submitting it :to the Chamber. The President of the Council did not conceal from the Chamber that the Government was actuated by an appre hension of the conduct of Holland, and the possible interference of one of the Great Northern Powers. The Opposition maintained that the sum required was unneces sary, as France was already sufficiently provided against an emergency. The debate was not closed when the mails left Paris. The Commerce contains the following exposition of the AGUADO Loan, the subject of so many discussions and conjectures in Madrid, Paris, and London : The nominal capital of the Aguado loan is to be 1,000,000,000 reals, in a stock bearing 5 per cent. interest, and issued at 50 per cent., which will amount to 500,000,000 rea!s. Those 500,000,000 are to be reduced to 400,000,000, i. e , to 100,000,000 francs, in virtue of a secret clause, by which M. Aguado is to be authorized to negociate the new stock at 4 per cent., without a commission. On that sum of 400,000,000 M. Aguado offers to advance 300,000,00 0 , com posed of the following articles Expenses of preparing the titles Interests of the first half-yearly dividend, on the capital of a billion Commission of 5 p er cent. on a bi llion 50,000,000 Payment of former accounts claimed by 31 Aguado Reserved for th e payment o f the troops 60,000,000 To be employed in purchasing military effects, 81,000,000 stores, etc Beals. 8,000,000 Total Reels 300,000,000 Finally, M. Aguado requires that the Spanish Government should give him besides a discharge in full of all former ac counts, a confirmation of the concessions of mines, marshes, and lands made to him in 1825 and 1826, the title of Grandee of Spain of the first class, and the collar of the Golden Fleece. The two last years' dividends of the Active Debt are not to be paid, and the payment of those to come is to be suspended until the Ist of January, 1841. Consequently, the holders of the Active Stock shall not receive any interest during five years. The following are extracts from the Journals : JASSY, MARCH 18.—Russian agents are now going through a Mo m ld a a n vi n a o . tor P io r u o s tec f t o e r d h b is y a o v u ar r ic H e, osp a o n d d or, bo P ug ri h n t ee by Sto ß u u r s d s z ia a : they are endeavouring to establish the opinion that Mol davia and Wallachia will not be happy till they are in corporated with Russia. The insolence of these agents indisposes the Boyards towards the Prince and the protecting power. M. Bezak, Russian Consul in Mol davia, lately addressed a note to the Hospodar, announc ing- that the Emperor Nicholas had generously resolved on allowing the sons of Moldavian Noblemen access to Rus sian Universities, and rendered them eligible to all civil and military offices in Russia, with the same privileges as those enjoyed by the native nobility ; but his Majesty required, in return, that the Russian language should be taught in all the establishments for public instruction throughout the prin cipality. The Hospodar havinc, submitted that note to the General Assembly, the Boyards unanimously declared they would not consent to have their children taught the Russian language, as it was their own country, and not Russia, they were called upon to serve. This answer may vet be the cause of the dissolution of one General Assembly, as has already been the case with that of Bucharest ; but public opinion will at least have strengly manifested itself against the encroaching system of the Autocrat. It is to be hoped that 'the Govern ments of EngloafndoapnpdosFinrganaeebawrriilelrattolasthtefeinelsattliiaebleinadmisbpietniosn oabfltehne e C ce r s a s r i , ty if they seriously wish to secure the peace of the world.--Le Commerce. FRONTIERS OF SPAIN.—A letter from the frontier estimates the number of killed and wounded, in the action of Lucena, on the side of the Christinos, at 146, and on that of the Car lists at about 300.—Sentinelle des Pyrenees. A letter from Oloron, of the sth April, which has been communicated to us, states that the expedition to Upper Ara gon, commanded by Tarragona!, had been overtaken at Bosca, three leagues north of Huesca, by the division of La Ribera.— Ibid. C t e e , S Spain, has arri ve d a t toSpain. 1 5thA Febru ary, says that hisp. inre cte : u ofn o f the yellow fever on board the merchantmen was caused by the OlnentarmfrfoPr from z aPn Port-au-Prince, Ambassadora oun insalubrity of the place where they wer e anc h ored. It did not affect the ships of war, which were anchored at a distance from the town.— Commerce. BAYOVNE, APRIL 6.—The artillery which O'Donnell had caused to enter France, has been conveyed to-day to Irun. The Carlists have attempted an attack on Valcarlos, in which they have failed, thanks to the bravery of the Comman dant. Our troops are placed at the extreme frontier, to hinder the Carlists from entering the French territory. The division of La Ribeiro has taken 100 Carlists near Ascian ; it has destroyed the bridge, as well as that of Belascon, which had been restored. lam at this moment informed that a new Carlist expedition is marching to Tudela, and that the Pre tender is with it. The expedition which has invaded Arragon is manceuvering towards Barbastro or Chanzon, and it is sup posed that it will go to Catalonia.—Private Correspondence of the Constitulionnel. FRENCH FUNDS. -PArtis, APRIL 10. Five per Cents., 108 f 35c. 40c. 30c. Four per Cents., 101 E 25c. three per Cents., 80f. 85c. 90c. 85c. Rente de Naples, 00f. 80c. 90c. 95c. Roman Five per Cents., )03. Spanish Actives, 21 20A 21. Spanish Passives, 4%%. Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 102. Belgian Bank, 1,440 f. 1,4t5f. Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents. 20%. Haytian Loan, 490 f. 480 f. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 2.5 f. 55c. ; money, 25f. 52%c Three months, paper, 25f. 40c.; money, 25f. 37%e. LAST PRICES. Five per Cents. 108 E Coc. Three per Cents., SOL 95c. Romans, 103. Belgian Loan, 102. Belgian Bank, 1,415 f. Haytian Loan, 480 f. Spanish Actives, 21. Spanish Passives, 4%. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY. DeAL, Aran. 11.--Wind fine weather.—Sailed her Ma jesty's ship Hastings, for Portsmouth. Came down from the river and remain the Albion, Ives, for Cadiz; Britannia, Volum, for Gibraltar; Grant, Sayers, for Barbadoes : Caroline, Barnard, for Cerunna ; and Lively, Trapp, for Bordeaux. Arrived and proceeded for the river the Ada, Tregarthen, from St. Michael's. . _ PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 11.—Wind variable, light airs and fine.—Ar. rived the Yanston, Jarvis, from St. Michael's. Sailed Le Courier, D'Argue, for Newfoundland. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 10.—Wind \V.—Arrived the Monarch steamer, Wyatt, from the Isle of Man. Sailed the Restitution, Moon, for Que. 132 c ; and Florentia, Delville, for Sydney, New South Wales. FALMOUTH, APRIL 10.—Wind S. W. to W.S.W., fresh breezes and thick weather.—Arrived the Chieftain, Peters, from St. Domingo, sailed the 17th February. _ LIVERPOOL, APRIL 11.—Wind W.S.W., moderate.—Arrived the William Badger, Lambert, from New Orleans; Dumfriesshire, from Mobile; Saladin, Simpson, from Savannah; and Cornelius, Betts, from Smyrna. Arrived off port the Hermes, from Lima; Grace, Brown, from New Orleans; Madison, from Charleston; Laura, from Trieste ; and Thomas, Hughes, from Sicily. Sailed the Higginson, Dawson, for Barbadoes ; Donald, Allison, for Dominica; Sarah, Whitney, for St. John's, New Brunswick; and Scotia, Cothay, for Demerara. ISLE OF WIGHT, APRIL 11.—Arrived off port the Triton, Jensen, and Emery, Merryman, from Ilavannah ; Republic, Stieksen, from New Fork; and Pocohontas, Cook, from Virginia. POOLE, APRIL 11.—Arrived the Julia, Blake, from Lisbon. CLYDE, APRIL 9.—Arrived the Czar, Fowler, from Charleston. NEWRY, APRIL 9.—Arrived the Beverley, Lawson, from St. John's, New Brunswick. HULL, APRIL a—A rrived the Rob Roy steamer, from Hamburg. GUERNSLY, APRIL 9.—The rudder of a vessel of about 300 tons was picked up off Castle Cornet, on Saturday, apparently quite fresh i❑ the water, and supposed to have belonged to a Russian or Prussian vessel. The Judith, from Liverpool to Valparaiso, was spoken on the 20th of January, off' Staten Island. The Columbus, from Copenhagen to Liverpool, on the 11th of February, in lat. 28. S., long. 23. W., by the Heroine, Bouch, arrived at Liverpool. The Hazard, from Exmouth to Newfoundland, in lat. 49. long. 2.5., by the Arethusa, Beard, arrived from Jamaica. The James, Jones, from Mostyn to Dublin, is sunk in the New Channel—crew saved. Y AND COMMERCIAL NEWS, CITY (THIS DA Y), TWELVE O'CLOCK. We have received the Journal du Commerce of Antwerp of yesterday's date. It states, from the Dutch papers, that they have received the Java papers of the 25th November, which give an account, that Toeankoe Iman, of Bonjol, after his defeat on the 16th August ; was obliged to surrender to the Dutch Government at di'cretion, imploring them to save his life. The expedition of General Vervier will put to sea for the coast of Guinea on the 15th instant. The General is to embark at Rotterdam on board a merchant ship, the frigate making part of the expedition to sail from Helveatsluys. The Duch funds came the same as by the Balavier, which arrived yesterday afternoon. Accounts received from Mexico by the schooner Levin, arrived at New Orleans on the 20th of March, state that two French brigs of war had arrived at Vera Cruz, and the remainder of a squadron, 14 in all, were expectod to enforce the French claims, a part of which had been admitted. Fortifications had been commenced to protect the town, in case of a bombardment, which was expected. The above vessel also brings accounts of the sailing of the Mexican fleet against Texas, and official information had been received at Vera Cruz that several of the States and large cities had revolted from the existing Mexican Government, and had declared in favour of the Con federation ; and that General Urea in the south, at the head of his army, had also declared against the Government. This induced the President to send a large army, from the city of Mexico, against Urea; but, on their march, some of the soldiers refusing to fight against him, had a battle amongst themselves, one party returning to Mexico, while the other resolved to join General Urea. Both the British and Foreign Markets are quite inactive up to the present hour. There being no arrivals of any importance this morning, the speculators are shy in their operations. Consols, which closed yesterday at 931 for Money, and 931 :I for the Account, opened at the same prices this morning. Exchequer Bills, 65 69. India Bonds, 74, marked 7 prem. Bank Stock, 2051 money. India Stock, 266,1 for time. In the foreign market Spanish Active still continues heAvy at 215 a. Portuguese, 301 1. Three per Cents., 201 1. Mexican, 271 81. Colombian, 28 to 1. Brazil, 76 to I. Danish, 741. Dutch, 541 4 . Belgian, Mi. Spanish Passive, , q i. Deferred, 7i 1. PRICES OF STOCKS Tills DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock .. ... 3 per Cent. tie,. 92.3i% I Ditto Bonds 3 per Cont. Ccns 9 13443150uth Sea Stock — 3 34 per Cent......... —.. ......... —lold Annnities Ditto Het' lo o ,,, i l4lNew Ditto — New 31' per Cent .. 10131% ' 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751... New 5 per Cent.. . — Exch. Bills, £l,ool' 69 67 om. Bank Long Annuities to expire Ditto • . . sno , ..,..‘u Ditto. ' 69 67 pm ?A I L A: PO Jan. 5, 1310 —l Di tto Ad vertised •-- (MI Jan. 5, 1 iEit' .. ... -, Bank Stock for Account... ..... April .:', I.S3t' ........ Jar, 5, 1870... — Consols for Acconnt PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian lisonds - Belgian Bonds 103% Yv Ditto Account ..—... ..... ..—.. Ditto ACCOUN. Brazilian Bonds . 76% 6 Ditto Account 6) S Ditto Account — Ditto New Bonds — Ilacnos Ayres Bonds — Ditto Account Ditto Account — Ditto, 3 per cent 2034 . 7 % halizp. Bonds —.... ......... .... en, tsian Bonds , Ditto Account .. Russian Bonds, 1522 ......... -- Co annhiar. Bonds Ditto Account Columbian Bonds, 1524 —,Spanish Bonds — Ditto Account — Ditto Account ... D tni.di Bonds .. Ditto Account. — Ditto Account " 0 Greek Bonds.-- ....... .. ....... .. French, 5 per cent..... —.. —I. —, Ditto Bonds, 1825 — ---- 4 per cent Ditto Account ....... ..... .... —— 3 per cent. f—c. Ales.r!an :.sons, 5 per rant.... Exchange ..... Ditto Account MM.), ti per cent. Ditto Account ... Noapolit.n • I Ditto Account — PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK 3 olanos Mining Company... British Iron Company iliriningham and Derby Railway Company . ..... Great Western Railway Company: 63 t righton Railway Company' 8 London and Blackwall Railway LOadon and Birmingham Railway Company 9O London and Southampton Railway Company 5O London and Croydon Railway Company Ditto Scrip 5 London Grand Junction Railway 5 Northern and Eastern Railway Company Asphalte, Claridge's Patent 2 Do British 1 Anglo Mexican Mint lO London and Westminster Bank 2O Per Share. 45 75¢ 141% :28 93 4 10 7 179 46 4N 16 17 1 1 4 1134 12 PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, APRIL 10. 3 per Cent. Consols - Grand Canal Debs. 6 per cent. 91%. Ditto Reduced - Ditto, 4 per cent ... 36 per Cenk. Stock 9 9 ,4 Hibernian Bank - Ditto New, 18311 ......, ........ 100 City of Dublin Steam Company 112►, 3 w per Cent. Debentures - Bank Stock - Royal Canal Stock - Ballast Office Debentures, 4 per Grand Canal Stock cent HALF-PAST ONE. We have received the second letter from Liverpool. No arrivals from New York. The sales to-day in cotton amount to about 2,500 bags. The market has been fiat, but without any material change in prices. A stagnation of business still prevails both in the British and Foreign Markets to the present hour, without a feature worth noticing. Consols have been during the whole of the morning at 93i buyers for the Ac count, Money 93g. To-morrow being Good Friday, both houses will be shut, as well as the Bank, and all other institutions. Exchequer Bills, 69 67 prem. ; India Bonds, 71 73 ; Bank Stock, 2054 6; India Stock, 2681 9i Bi. In the Foreign market, Spanish Active, heavy at 211 /, with Cou pons ; Portuguese, 301 to 31 ; Three-per-Cents, 9.0 i to 21 ; Brazilian, 76i ; Columbian, 281 ; Mexican, 27 3 ,4 8 1 ,4 ; Dutch Two-and-a-half per Cents., 531 4 ; Spanish Passive, 4i ; Deferred, 7i 1. In Shares, very little doing. London and Brighton, 2 premium ; Asphalte, 15 prem. ; British Iron, 351 discount. Although money is plentiful there is nothing doing in commercial affairs. THREE O'CLOCK Consols for Account, 93g. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT ROCHDALE.—We re n-ret to learn that a large new factory bolongin: to Mr. Jacob 'Aright, of Rochdale, fifty-seven yards long, twenty yards broad, and five stories high, was entirely destroyed by fire yes terday, with the whole of the machinery, which was new and of the most valuable description. The fire broke out about eight o'clock in the morning, and is understood to have arisen from friction in one of the scutching machines. The loss is supposed to amount to about 30,0001. The building and ma chinery were insured ; but to what extent, we have not been able to learn.—Manchester Guardian. Just after he had taken leave of Edinburgh, (au tumn, 1830,) as he seems to have thought for ever, he re ceived a communication as inopportune as any that ever reached him. His diary for the 13th of July says briefly, " I have a letter from a certain young gentleman announcing that bis sister had so far mistaken the intentions of a lame baronet, nigh 60 years old, as to suppose him only prevented by mo desty from stating certain wishes and hopes, &c. The party is a woman of rank, so my vanity may be satisfied. But I excused myself, with little picking upon the terms."—Loch hares Life of Scott, Vol. Vll. --- SALMON FISHERY.—Sitice the opening of the Tweed on the 15th of February last, till this week, very few salmon have been taken with the rod. This is to be at tributed not to the scarcity of fish in the water, but to the river beinc , kept almost cont i nua ll y flooded for some weeks past by the melting of the snow. This week the sport has been in general good, and especially on Tuesday, when a con siderable number of salmon were killed. On that day his Grace the Duke of Roxburghe caught in his own water eleven, and Colonel Childers, in the Sprouston water four teen salmon. Several other gentlemen were also very suc cessful in the Makerstoun water. Should the weather eon tinue favourable great sport may be anticipated in the course of the ensuing week.—Kelso Chronicle.; ELECTION COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) HULL. The Committee met this morning at ten o'clock, when Mr. HtLL resumed his arguments in support of the objection to the vote of Eggleston, which was under consideration when the Committee adjourned yesterday. Mr. HILDYARD was heard in reply, and The CHAIRMAN then said the Committee thought there was not sufficient evidence, and the vote must therefore be retained. Isaac Whitaker, merchant, was objected to. John Headley, the keeper of a beer-shop, deposed that on the Thursday before the election Mr. Whitaker, in company with Mr. Wilberforce and Sir Walter James, and other per sons, went to the ship-yard of Mr. Humphrey, where they re mained ten minutes or a quarter of an hour. Mr. Whitaker then came over to the house of witness and gave him half a sovereign, stating that the freemen in the yard would come over and drink it out in the evening. They came accordingly and drank out the money. The Committee retained the vote, the identity not having been proved. Charles Hammond was next objected to. The first gitness called was Philippa Jefferson, the wife of John Jefferson, who keeps a beer-shop at the Groves. She was examined at great length. She stated that when Mr. Hammond came to canvass her husband, he was accompanied by Mr. Edward Gibson ; that for two or three days before the election several strangers came to the house to drink, but added that they paid for what they got. She never saw Mr. Charles Hammond after the election until this morning. She had made no bill out, because she could not write. John Jefferson was called, Mr. Austin desiring his wife to remain in the room until he made his appearance, that no com munication might be made. On leaving the room she ex claimed, " You must mind and not criminate yourself, for they wanted me to criminate myself." Jefferson was then examined—He stated that when Ham mond came to canvass him he was alone. That several stran gers came to the house and drank during the election w ithout paying. That his wife afterwards went to Hammond to see if she could get any money, and that he then went to Mr. Quin on the same subject, but was unable to get anything. He never saw any written paper on the subject of this drink, but if there was any it would be in the possession of his wife ; for he could not write, and she could. There were several other material contradictions in the evidence of these two witnesses. Mr. AUSTIN said, that not being able to establish the pre sent objection he should withdraw it. ST. MARTIN'S-IN-THE-FIELDS. (THIS DAY.) A meeting of the parishioners of this parish took place this morning at the Vestry-room, for the purpose of nominating Churchwardens, the declaration of a rate, and other business. The Vicar, Sir HUNIPIIREY DUCKENFIELD, took the Chair at ten o'clock. The minutes of the last meeting having been read, Mr. POUNCEY rose for the purpose of moving the appoint ment of a committee of eleven to act with the overseers for the regulations of the Camden Town Burying-ground. The sub ject being one of great importance which ought ro be dis cussed with coolness, was the reason for his bringing it on at so early a period of the day. He thought if his motion was carried, it would have the effect of bringing to a settlement the subject of the burial fees, which had long been a source of great discontent in the parish. He believed it was impossible for the parish to go on much longer without having the sub ject settled. Mr. SIMPSON seconded the motion. He would defy any person to prove that the Churchwardens or Sextons were en titled to take more than one shilling among them for burial fees. —( Cheers. ) Mr. NEWBERRY could speak feelingly upon the subject of burial fees. He had the misfortune some time since to bury his wife and son on the same day. The demand made upon him by the Sexton for the ground was two pounds odd, and upon his expressing a wish to have it an extra depth, he was told that it would be sd. a foot extra. He told the Sexton that he wished the grave to be at least sixteen feet deep, for which he was told he must pay one pound five s billings. This was not all—the conduct of the Clergyman was worse than the grave-digger—he performed the service in the most negligent manner, leaving half of it out ; and when he (Mr. N.) was returning from the grave, he was tapped on the shoulder by the grave-digger, who demanded ss. for ramming down the grave. Upon his telling him he need not mind doing so, he said that he could not get all the dirt in. To which he (Mr. N.) replied, " Oh, then, leave it out."--(l.aughter.) This was not all ; for, as he was coming out of the gate he was asked if Ire would have the grave kept up.--(Laughter.) He thought the persons who should be appointed: on the Corn mittee ought to be practical men, who well understood the subject; and if such was the case, he would venture to pre dict that some course would soon be adopted which would prevent the public being plundered of their motaey. Mr. PITT did not know, at the present stage of the pro ceedings, whether or not it was expedient to appoint a Com mittee. He objected to the motion, because it recognised overseers that were not at present in existence, and who could not be considered appointed till the old over seers had passed their accounts, which they Lad not done. Mr. Pitt was proceeding to contend that the overseers did not legally exist in an official capacity ; as the accouz its of the late overseers had not been legally passed, their successors could not legally be appointed, when he was called to order by The Rev. CHAIRMAN, who said it was quite a ~waste of time to go on arguing upon the supposition that no b•ody of over seers existed.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. WiLics referred to an Act of George 11., support of Mr. Pitt's vi'w. ( A Rate-payer--" That Act has been re pealed.") Mr. W. denied that such was the cas,r3. Mr. WEST, one of the overseers, read a loam. from Mr. Pitt, to show, that according even to that gentl ennui's own law, the overseers were duly elected. —( Hear and a, laugh.) Mr. PITT attempted to go on with the discussio e, but ulti- mately gave way to the general cry of " Order." The resolution for the appointment of the Committee o. eleven was then carried without opposition. The Rev. CHAIRMAN wished to make an obstn-vation on what had been said respecting the fees, but if he were silent on the subject, it might be supposed that he was out of hu mour, which was not the case.—,Hear, hear.) He assured the Vestry that he would not take any fee to wilit2h be did not think himself legally entitled.— ( Hear, hear . ) With respect to his own personal interest in those fees, it was not so important to him that he might not sacrifice it for tie sake of peace. But he was bound to sustain the rights of the Vicarage, for the sake of his successor, who might not be as favourably circumstanced as he was in respect to private fortune.—( Hear, hear.) Certain books, which contained important: evidence respecting the legality of the fees, had been taken away from the Vestry.--( Hear, hear.) He did not impute a ity motive to the persons, whoever they were ; but if it s itould hap pen that, through the want of that evidence, he should be unable to make good his claim, would. not the conduct of those persons be very like depriving a gentleman of his title-deeds, and then calling on him to prove his title to his estate. He believed, however, that the lega:2ity of his fees did not rest alone on the books to which he alluded. Mr. SIMPSON denied that the books had been abs tracted by those who opposed the fees in question. He, for one, had long called for inquiry, which by the proposed course they would effect. He was glad to hear that, in a pecuniar y sense, the fees were not of any importance to the Rev. Ch airman, but they were of great importance to many parishionet!s, who were called on to pay them at the time when they could least afford to do so. Eleven gentlemen were then named upon the Committee, according to the resolution previously passed. The question was then put from the Chair, that the " eleven gentlemen named do constitute the Committee," and carried unanimously. The CHAIRMAN said the next business was to nominate can didates to fill the office of churchwardens for the eitsuing year. !r. PAYNE proposed Mr. Michael Staunton, stationer.ofthe Strand, to fill the office of churchwarden.. He was anxious to steer clear of party questions, and merely to ad vance the interests of the parish, and he believed that would be best effected by appointing Mr. Staunton, who was a gen tleman of great diligence, of much information, and who was determined to do the work himself. Mr. SMITH seconded the nomination. Mr. HAYWARD proposed Mr. Robert Cuff as the senior churchwarden, as he thought it desirable to have a person of experience in the office. Mr. WEST proposed Mr. Simpson. Mr. SIMPsoN objected to being put in nomination. He be lieved the reason why his friends were anxious to put him for ward was, that he had been instrumental in throwing open the vestry—that he had saved 50,0001. a year to the parish—a n d had removed a parish-clerk, who received a salary without doing duty. He had no objection to Mr. Staunton in his pri vate capacity, for he believed he was a very estimable ma n , but he thought him objectionuble in his public capacity. Mr. PEARCE proposed Mr. LANG of the Haymarket. Mr. POUNCEY and Mr. FINCIIET were afterwards put in ,nomination. A gentleman named JAMES having been nominated, The VICAR said he thought it highly inexpedient to put in nomination gentlemen who did not wish to serve.—( Hear.) Mr. PITT said he had great objections to many gentlemen who had been nominated ; for he had the strongest objection to any gentlemen, who, like Messrs. Staunton and Simpson, had supported the abominable system of Poor-laws.—(" Oh, oh," and cries of " Question.") He felt this objection on the broad principle of justice t o t h e poor, and he did strenuously protest against the perversion of those funds which, by the 43d of Elizabeth, ought to be collected for the poor, and the poor only.—( Hear, hear.) Was it just that these funds should (as had been done last ye ar ) b e appropriated towards the er ection of a building which had nothing whatever to do with the Poor-laws.- 7 ( Hear, and cries of " the club-room.")—We presume Mr. Pitt allud e d to a loan of 8501. for the erection a registry office. Mr. POUNCEY suggested that a compromise should be effected by proposing a gentleman of each party to fill the office of Churchwarden.—(Cheers.)' Mr. WILSON said, if that proposition were not acceded to he should nominate Mr. Sergeant Merewether—( No, no, and hear, hear)—if that gentleman chose to interfere with the election of Poor-law Guardians, he must be liable to incur all the other responsibilities of a parishioner.—( Hear.) The VICAR announced the following list of gentlemen as having been nominated for Churchwardens :—Messrs. Simp son, Staunton, Lang, Pouncey, Fincher, James, Pitt, Hut chins, Pierce, Addington, Sergeant Meretvether, and Cuff. He appealed to the parishioners to conduct the election with as much good feeling as possible. —( Hear. ) POOR RATES. The meeting having also been summoned tc make a poor -rate or rates, one of the overseers presented a statement, from which it appeared that a sum of upwards of 9,0001., was required to de fray the expences connected with the Poor-rates for the ensuing quarter. It rested with the parish now to make a rate of 101 d. in the pound to meet this, or of Is. 2d. for two quarters. Mr. PITT rose to make an objection to the passing of the accounts, on the ground that the provisions of the Act of Parliament in this report, had not been strictly adhered to. He contended that the conduct of the Overseees had been illegal in the mode in which they had procured a clandestine auditing of their accounts. He had never sought sing office but one, and that was the office of Assistant Overseer, which; he would undertake without fee or reward for the sole purpose of watching the conduct of the Guardian", an d contributing to get rid of the New Poor-law Bill. He con cluded by moving a resolution to the effect that the boo;110 5 of the late overseers be delivered to the Vestry Clerk to be ex amined by the Vestry in the presence of two Magistrates, ac cording to the 23d Geo. 11., and that the rate be postpaned until after the examination. The CHAIRMAN stated that he was obliged to leave the vestry, and accordingly Mr. Smith was appointed to the chair. Mr. RIDGWAY moved an amendment on Mr. Piet's resolu tions to the effect that a rate of 14d. in the pound ohould be granted for the support of the poor. He defended the New Poor-law and the Board of Guardians ; but he admitteel that it was a fraud to set down the expense of the police to the poor-rate. That force was unconstitutional—it was a stand- - in- , army in disguise, and was not employed to protect the public, but to wait on the mansions of the great at fetes a•nd entertainments. Mr. HOWARD moved, as an amendment, that a rate of 6tl - granted. —( Hear. ) Mr. NEWBURY supported the amendment, and he desired that the proposed rate should go to the support of the poor.--: ( Hear, hear.) It would go to pay salaries to the amount of 9001. a year for looking after four hundred poor creatures. ( Hear, hear, and a laugh.) There were other items of H e equally foreign from the support of the poor. r ic would not object to 2s. rate if it were to be applied to its legi timate purpose—the support of the poor. The new Bill had increased the expenses to the amount of upwards of I,ooo'. a year, beyond what they would be if the old system had bee n continued with all its faults. There bad been under the olu system certainly a good deal of feasting, but that was only what the officers were entitled to—if they had been moderate. —( Great laughter, cheers, and clapping of hands.) Mr. SIMPSON denied that there bad been an encrease of ex penditure under the Poor-law. He understood that the poo r in the workhouse were now much better treated than before. He thought that indeed they were too well treated, and there were in the room now many rate-payers who did not live so well as the people in the workhouse. It was Mr. Pitt the disappointed candidate for the s'irveyorship of the parish, and other offices of emolument—who said they were ill-treated. —( Cheers and laughter.) He ( Mr. Simpson) condemned the plurality of voting under the new Bill, and admitted that it was attended with baneful consequences.—(Hear, hear.) The statements which had been made respecting xnereased expenditure were garbled, as would be seen w hen the yearly accounts were made up. He was as ready as any one to admit the real vices of the New Poor-law, amongs t Hear, were the plurality of votes, and the vote by proxy.-- (F lea ,, r ' hear.) In a recent election in the parish of Chelsea, one j" dividual held 900 proxies—(" Shame")—and in St. Pancras Mr. Murphy held 500 proxies, and his opponent, Mr. Sea . d e ding, held I,400—(" Shame.") That system ought :to done away with, or otherwise it would be introduced inco the elections of Members of Parliament.—( Cheers.) Mr. PITT explained. hat Mr. WEST argued in favour of a 10d. ra t e , w hi c h was t „ the overseers required. They h a d no t as k e d f or the l a b ; sooner, lest it should int er f ere w ith t h e f ranc hi se of parishioners.—(Hear.) Mr. RIDGWAY, in connection with what had been said as . 0 , the franchise, had to inform the vestry that four Tories ha' recently been freeholders, as trustees of a parochial charity' lie then withdrew his motion f or a Is. 2d. rate, and one for 10d. was substituted. Mr. PITT complained of the manner in which the overseers accounts had been passed—it had been done in a clandestine and surreptitious manner, instead of in open vestry as OP' ought to have been clone.--( Cries of " Question.") He " e ; nied that they had ever b een l ega lly p asse d, although the overseers rejoiced over their wine at the idea that they ha deceived old Pitt.--(Great laughter.) Let there be a n ope° investigation of the accounts before any further rate wa passed, and that was why he (Mr. Pitt) seconded the motion of his friend, Mr. Wilkes. Mr. WEST entered into an explanation of the manner in which the accounts were p ass ed, and which had been da n upon the suggestion of Mr. Pitt himself. e e be The CHAIRMAN then p u t th e quest i on t h a t a ra te 0, e-- imposed, which was negatived by a large majority. 1 . The CHAIR MAN th en p ut t h e quest i on t h at a rate 0 r , -0 6 in the pound be imposed, which was agreed to. Mr. PITT requested that his original motion for the post ponement of the rate to be put to the meeting. The question was put by the CHAIRMAN, and negatived by a large majority. meeting, relative to th e p er i o d s o f y ear a t whichfor tthheernaetexst Mr, WEST then gave noti ce o f a reso lution should be made. The meeting then broke up. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS .DA OLD COURT. THE SENTENCES. Although the present Sessions are not likely to terminate until Saturday, the Common Sergeant, Alderman Harmer. and the usual City Authorities, entered the Court at nine o'clock, and proceeded to pass sentence on the following prisoners : To he Transported for seven Years—Maria Fletcher, Sarah Litchfield, Elizabeth Starkie, Sarah Bell alias Starkie, Ed ward Edwards, Thomas Parkinson, George Cox, Thomas Powell, John Pitt, John Cashman, Henry Day, Edward Wil kinson, Jeremiah Penning, Christopher Atkinson, John Green hail, Julian Somerville, F. A. Randall, John Clements, Francis Lewis, David Holt alias George Johnson, Samuel Swain, and Attitius Salvador. To be Transported for Ten Years—Elizabeth Patching. Mary Ann Wood, Francis Fell, Thomas Jones, Thomas White, James H e nl e y, Willi am Bl ac k woo d , WilliamMars den, John Ha rr i s , Willi am A t ki ns, Willi am Read, W il / 4 1ana Reynolds, J ames M oore a li as Willi ams, John Beal, J°hr, Betts, John Williams, and Richard Thompson. This prisoner was sentenced to be again transported for a second Ten Yea rs after the expiratio n o f t h e fi rst term. A n To be Transported f or F ourteen Y ears—Thomas Edmund Wyatt and William G reen . To be Tran s p or t e d f or Fif teen Years—John L a than , Henry Whe e le r , J o h n Fi tzgera l d alias Doran, an d John Stevens. To be Tr ans p or t e d f or Lif e— Wi ll i am Phillips, Alfred Fawcett, and J ose ph K ent. Miers (fo r arson ), Alli son ( f or the po i soning of Emma Cripps), and M arr y att ( f or mans l aug h ter), as well as se'rer other prisone rs , were not sentence d , as we understand, in con sequence of the ab sence o f t h e R ecor d er. Several other p r i soners were sentenced to various ter ms O imprisonment. Af ter w hi c h , M r. Sergeant A ra li n proceed ed to try several petty cases. NEW COURT. (Before Mr. Baron PARK.) TRIAL OF THOMAS WILLIAMS, ESQ., FOR FORGERY• (FOURTH DAY.) At ten o'clo c k Mr. Baron PARKE entered the Court, and the Jury having answered to their names, The ATTORNEY -GENERAL resumed his address. He sa id that he felt exceedingly grateful to the Jury for the attent ion which they h a d pa id to hi m, and he had again to bespeak the patience and indulg ence . Wh en he left off last night, he vilg observing, on the suit which was depending in the Ecclesiasti cal Court, and had the case been allowed to proceed tha t !' there was no d ou b t j ust i ce would have been done between the parties. D oc t ors o f Ci v il Law would have addressed the Judge, Attorneys -at-Common Law, would have been CE amined on oath, and the Court of Delegates would have thought no tim e l ost i n i nvestigating a case where such 8 ,, " amount of property was involved. He would not, howeve r ; dwell any further on that part of the case, convinced as he " It { that he must by this time have satisfied the Jury, that [ the desire of the prosecutor was to have a fair and in' investigation of his claims, the present proceeding was the very last he would have adopted. The Learned Gentlema n then proceeded to describe the uncertain state in which th.e mind of the testator was, with respect to the disposition of his property, and to state the different alterations that he 11 ad made in his will from time to time. In December, 1823, ° n the occasion of the marriage of his eldest son, be made a set tlement of his estates on his issue, whether male or femalei vc and in default the reo f, th e property was to go to the nex t4i kin. On the 26th of J anuary, 1824, he made another ", by which he devized his unsettled estates and personal P r 7 perty on his younger c hild ren. On the 18th March, 182." lie made another will, reserving a power of appointment over his unsettled estates. On the sth November, 1828, he y made the will given in evidence by the prosecutor , which the unsettled and p ersona l property, amounting to between 50,0001. and 60,000/. was left amongst his young e l children. On the 21st Ap r il, 18 31, he executed a CO by which he revoked the will o f N ovem b er 1828, an d to Alt s ' Hamilton, who would have been entitled to a third of the 50,0001. or 60,0001., he left only 101. ; and t o M rs . William s ' the wife of the prisoner, who would hav e b een ent itled to th same sum, only 400/. The next testament which he exe cuted was dated the 29th of May, 1833, about the time that Mr' Barton Panton was married to the daughter of Mr. Ramsey Williams, by which h e d ev i zed to the prosecutor all the P e ' sonalty, all the realty, a ll the property in possession and re mainder. That disposition of the property might have been satisfactory to M r . R amsey Williams and the prosecutor , but it did not prove so to the mind of the old gentleman. He was very much attac h ed to his daughter, Mrs. Willia ms i and was an x i ous to evince it by a new disposition o f his ptoperty in her favour, and his eldest son, Mr. Jon es Panton, being dead, he thought he might, by a ppealing e h to the Cou r t o f E qu i ty, revoke the settlement w hi c h _ had m a d e at his marriage. He accordingly wro te to 3 1 r • Williams, statin g that lie had been defrauded into making 7 that settl ement , an d b egg i ng him to go over to h i m to Plas gwyn. Mr. Williams, accordingly, did so, and Scrip, No., their was then ex ecu t e d. H e wou ld put t h at d ocument i nto tne client,no i i f t a not, forgery.he would be h hands, an d h e wou ld put i t to them whether they cou ld pro . n with his And why ? B ecause i t conta i ne d t h e i nstruct i ons f or t h e very ites tamentary disposition, set before them in the will--for the I they y e entitled did, it would to thei gor verdict. hard v al leged forgery of which, Mr. Williams now stood in the informal k instrument on which t o p re pare the will, and Mr. Williams This docum e nt b e i ng i n p e ncilling, was rather an thought he should not be contented with it, and he accordingly . THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1838